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Octane Render, the ultra-fast unbiased GPU renderer (made in Belgium just like me :-)) is soon going to introduce a new MLT-(Metropolis ligh...

At GTC 2010, Nvidia announced their future GPUs named Kepler and Maxwell. One of the more interesting quotes: "Between now and Maxwell,...

It's been a long time since OTOY was in the news, but the company will resurface at GTC. Jules Urbach of OTOY will be speaking in a sess...

Jacco Bikker has released two new video's of the progress with his real-time path tracer named Brigade, demonstrating some kind of game ...

This is really amazing technology: http://voxelium.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/shadows-and-global-illumination/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/w...

A couple of days ago there was a live chat with David Luebke and Bill Dally from Nvidia, on Nvidia's nTersect blog with GPU ray tracing ...

At least that's what his tweets ( http://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack ) seem to suggest: # There has GOT to be a better way to exactly t...

During the last Siggraph, a lot of presentations were centered around Arnold, the production renderer which is going to kick Renderman's...

Some excerpts from his QuakeCon keynote (different live blogs): "There are a lot of things we live with as rasterization in games...Ra...

Just read this Siggraph presentation about PantaRay, a GPU-accelerated raytracer to compute occlusion, which was used in Avatar and develope...

Just read that cuda 3.1 toolkit is available (has been for some time in fact) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/nvidia_cuda_parallel_n...

I've just read Joystiq's review of OnLive , which is very positive regarding the lag issue: there is none... As it stands right now,...

A lot of posts about Brigade lately, but that's because the pace of development is going at break neck speeds and the intermediate updat...

I have been wondering for some time if SVO and path tracing would be a perfect solution for realtime GI in games. Cyril Crassin has shown in...

Just stumbled upon this very impressive CUDA based path tracer: http://code.google.com/p/tokaspt/ for exe and source (The app itself has be...

Follow the link in this post to download. There's some new features + performance increase. Rename cudart.dll to cudart32_31_9.dll to m...

This has to be one of the coolest games ever. Media Molecule should hire these guys: http://vimeo.com/1849263 http://vimeo.com/2739375 Demo ...

The following screenshots are taken from the Brigade real-time path tracer demo, available at http://igad.nhtv.nl/~bikker/ Rendered with CPU...

Interview with Gaikai's Dave Perry on Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/30/dave-perry-on-the-innovation-of-gaikai/ Gaikai focuses ...

Crytek's HPG 2010 presentation is available at http://www.crytek.com/fileadmin/user_upload/inside/presentations/2010_HPG_Keynotes/Notes....